a bunch of (collage-)ATCs

Hi everyone,
I've been away for a frew days, for the Easter holidays, and I tried not to take too much art stuff with me - haha. Of course I only had the chance and time to use some bits and pieces and so I made a couple ATCs:

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.

Have a quiet week ... Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a few ATCs

Hi all,

I don't get around to doing much so I love ATCs e.g. I made a few these days, inspired by but not strictly following Seth Apter's Collage principles.
I'm so much in love with Seth's work and techniques, it's great and very inspiring to watch his instructions. I highly recommend them :-D

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look. I hope you are all well.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

late again ... - de stempelwinkel

and so very sorry.
Hello everyone out there in the crafty spheres ...
It's my turn over at the de stempelwinkel designteam blog and I'm sharing two ATCs that became victims of my watercolour experimentation.

If you'd like to have a peek anyway you are welcome to pay a visit to the de stempelwinkel designteam blog, where the DT shares great work every day.
Thanks so very much!
Have a most wonderful weekend everyone ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

ATC / de stempelwinkel

Hi and good morning all.

First of all I want to say a big fat sorry that I'm not able to catch up with you and with all your stunning blogs. For various reasons I sadly can't be on the internet as much as I'd love to be ... :-(
At least it's no illness this time.

It's my turn at the de stempelwinkel design team blog and today I'm sharing an ATC.

To see the full pic and examples of the gorgeous art my fellow DT members make I'd love to see you over at the de stempelwinkel design team blog. 

Thanks so much for having a peek and have a great week everyone.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

HDH #180 - fresh blood

Hi everyone ... and thank you so much for taking the time to have a look around.

Finally - the minions and inmates of the dungeon aka Haunted Design House are back after their hibernation YAY
Their fist challenge for this year is 'fresh blood'. Unfortunately I had no plan whatsoever, although I watched some very bloody vids :-D
So it's just an ATC - but there's some blood in it, if not fresh ...

It's one of those pieces I'd like to keep ... but it's as good as on its way.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

playing card swap

Hello hello, I hope you're well wherever you are and not too stressed out with all those Christmas preparations.
I signed up for a swap of playing cards and since they didn't arrive yet I'll only share the back so far:

I sprayed white cardstock with moonshadow mist gold and some homemade glimmerspray, the stamps are by BoBunny.

This is an envelope I made for another swap, this time with ATCs:
front

back

It started with some fabric. On this I applied two layers of gesso on each side and then several washes of acrylic ink. Finally I splattered some more acrylic ink onto it and sealed it.
The Zombie is an image transfer.

I recently got a wonderful book:
Painted Paper: Techniques & Projects for Handmade Books and Cards by Alisa Golden.
There I got the idea. The book is full of wonderful techniques and inspirations and I'm excited to try lots of them soon ...

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

100th challenge and a sad Good Bye

This is our 100th challenge over at Fun with ATC - thus the number 100 - and sadly the last one.
Thanks to all of you faithful followers and players and of course a big thank you to all of my teamies for a great time. It was huge fun to play along with such a talented team and I wouldn't want to miss this experience. For me it has been the first DT 'membership' and it helped me a lot.
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Dies ist unsere 100. Herausforderung - deswegen die 100 auch als Thema - bei FwATCs und leider auch die letzte.
Danke an all unsere treuen Verfolger und Mitspieler und selbstverständlich ein großes Danke auch an all meine Mitstreiter für eine großartige Zeit. Es hat viel Spaß gemacht, mit so einem talentierten Team zusammenzu'arbeiten' und ich möchte es nicht missen.

The background is another gelli plate piece, heat embossed with a T.H. background stamp and glittery white. The image is a little grumpie by smeared ink, colored with distress ink pads.
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Der Hintergrund ist ein gelli plate Druck, embossed mit einem T.H. Hintergrundstempel und glitzerigem Weiß. Das Motiv ist von smeared ink, mit Distress Stempelkissen eingefärbt.

Please have a look at the wonderful ATCs the DT made and I hope you'll play along, although it will be for the last time.

Thanks so much for having a look.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

anyone up for a card game?

Hi all, I hope you have a great Sunday ...
I've seen so many stamped 'playing cards' lately that I had to try some on my own.
Here's my version:

 

Thank you very much for stopping by, have a great day.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

night

Hello people from blogland, I hope you're all well ...
We're well into October now and it's time for a new challenge over at Fun with ATCs. This time we ask you for ... no, not Halloween, not Autumn/Fall either - but for NIGHT.
Please show us your ATCs with your ideas of night.
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Hallo Blogger, ich hoffe, es geht Euch allen gut ...
Der Oktober ist schon fortgeschritten und es ist Zeit für eine neue Herausforderung bei Fun with ATCs. Diesmal möchten wir von Euch ..... nein, weder Halloween noch Herbst sehen, sondern NACHT.
Zeigt uns Eure Vorstellungen von Nacht auf einem ATC ...

For this ATC I stamped on a white piece of cardstock and clear embossed the moon. The background is sponged with Distress Inks. Then I ironed the embossing off, applied some crackle paint rock candy and sponged it over with black DI when it was dry.
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Ich habe auf einen weißen Untergrund gestempelt und den Mond klar embosst. Der HG ist gewischt mit Distress Inks; anschließend habe ich die Embossingschicht heruntergebügelt, crackle paint aufgebracht und als die trocken war mit schwarz drübergewischt.

Please hop over on the FwATCs blog to see the ATCs my fellow DT members created.

I'm entering this into the Musically Challenged blog where the challenge is 'Bark at the Moon'. I hope it fits :-D

Thanks so much for visiting and have a good week!
Danke für's Vorbeischauen und eine schöne Woche Euch.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

a few atcs

for no particular reason and with noone spefic in mind. I used up gelli print backgrounds and different scraps. I'll send the ATCs off these days, though. So watch your mailbox :-)

 

Thanks so much for visiting and have a great Sunday.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Fun with ATCs challenge #98: 3 stamps or more / 3 Stempel oder mehr

Hello all and thanks for stopping by.
Just a quick post today to share my ATC for the FwATCs challenge #98.
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Hallo all Ihr da draußen und vielen Dank für's Vorbeischauen.
heute nur ein kurzer Eintrag, um mein ATC für die Challenge Nr. 98 bei FwATCs zu zeigen.

still (as always, actually LOL) in Halloween / spooky mood.
The background - surprise, surprise - is a gelli plate print again, love it so much. The (black embossed) archway is a gorgeous stamp by indigo blu, the words are from paper artsy (also black embossed and cut out from another gp background), the graveyard with the tree and the fab monk are stamps by Acapella Stempel - Heidi makes such a great range of marvelous and unusual stamps.
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immer noch und immer wieder im Halloween / Gruselmodus :-D
Der Hintergrund - es wird niemanden überraschen - ist wieder ein Gelli Plate Druck. Die Bögen sind ein klasse Stempel von Indigo Blu, die Wörter von Paper Artsy und der Friedhof mit Baum sowie der Mönch sind Stempel von Heidi/Acapella Stempel. Ich liebe sie ....


To get some inspiration please hop over on the Fun with ATCs-Blog and have a thorough look at the gorgeous little artworks my fellow DT members made.
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Besucht den FwATCs Blog und lasst euch von den großartigen kleinen Kunstwerken der DT Mitglieder inspirieren ...

As always, thank you so very much for visiting.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx

ATCs for Art Journey

The wonderful ladies over at Art Journey want to see ATCs in their current challenge #38.
Art Journey makes adorably beautiful stamps and I mixed some of them together

You have to use mainly Art Journey stamps.
Again I used up some of my gelli plate prints for the backgrounds.

Thank you ever so much for looking. Have a great weekend all of you ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

all the small things ...

I didn't share yet ...

A tag and an ATC for a Stampotique challenge in an FB group. They asked for red, orange and another color plus Stampotique stamps.

The background is gelli printed fabric with various stencils.

For this ATC I used a gelli plate print too and added the angel and some small chipboard letters, covered with another Stampotique stamp and glossy accents.

Then I finally got my stamps from smeared ink and used one :-) I love those little monsters ...

And at last there were two cards that popped into my mind when I looked over the stamps that accumulated on my table ... again with backgrounds from gelli plate prints.

I'm linking this up to Carolyn Dube's October Gelli Print Party


Read a couple of books about introverts and highly sensitive people LOL

I can't thank you enough for visiting my blog :-) always a pleasure to see you stopping by.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

CAS - trying clean and simple

Hello dear visitors and faithful followers.
It's Autumn finally. It's chilly and I begin to think about where the heck my self-knitted socks are.
Another fortnight has passed by and you're welcome to join us - if you like - for another challenge over at Fun with ATCs, where we want to see your clean and simple artworks this time.
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Hallo liebe  Besucher und treue Verfolger.
Es ist dann doch Herbst. Es ist kühl und ich fange an zu überlegen, wo zum Teufel meine selbstgestrickten Socken vom letzten Jahr gelandet sind.
Wieder sind zwei Wochen nur so vorbeigerauscht und wir bei FwATCs laden Euch ein, bei unserer neuen Herausforderung mitzumachen: diesmal CAS - clean and simple.

Along with Autumn Halloween is approaching and I took the opportunity to slowly get into the mood :-D as if I wouldn't 'do' creepy all year round *hehe*.
I tried to color it with pan pastel.
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Herbst heißt für mich auch Halloween und ich nutze diese Gelegenheit, langsam in Stimmung zu kommen (als ob ich Grusel nicht das ganze Jahr könnte *harhar*).
Die Farbe ist panpastel.

So please pay us a visit at FwATCs and play along with your clean and simple gorgeousness. Feel invited to have a loook at the wonderful pieces my fellow DT members made.
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Besucht uns doch auf FwATCs und schaut Euch die wunderbaren ATCs an, die die Design-Team Mitglieder gemacht haben.

Hugs, Suzanne xx

broken heart

Hi all,

just a quick post to share an ATC for the Smudgy Antics challenge, where the gorgeously talented DT ladies want to see broken-heart-related stuff.

thought this one would fit.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful week everyone, without broken hearts ...

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

stripes / Streifen

is the new challenge over at Fun with ATCs.

Hello peeps, a warm welcome to my new stalkers (only 9 to go LOL - watch this space for news :-D) and I hope you're all well wherever you are, enjoying the probably last sunshine and doing some awesome crafting.
Again a fortnight has passed and we ask you to incorporate stripes into your ATC. Shouldn't be that hard ;-)
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Hallo meine Lieben, ein herzliches Willkommen meinen neuen Verfolgern, ich hoffe, es geht Euch allen gut und Ihr genießt die wahrscheinlich letzten Sonnenstrahlen und seid fleißig am Basteln.
Schon wieder 14 Tage später und wir bei FwATCs möchten diesmal Streifen auf Euren ATCs sehen.

I used the tape I masked this card (and others) with cut it in smaller stripes with an x-acto knife and and glued them down on a black piece of cardstock. Then I heat embossed the word and the little flower (DarkroomDoor) with white ep - done. That simple :-)

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Ich habe das Masking Tape benutzt, mit dem ich diese Karte (und andere gleicher Sorte) maskiert habe, habe es dünner geschnitten und auf schwarzen Cardstock aufgeklebt. Das Wort und das Blümchen (beides DarkroomDoor) weiß embosst - fertig :-)


That's a peek of another ATC which I only show you as a second one because the stripes aren't that obvious.
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Hier ist ein Ausschnitt eines anderen ATCs, das ich 'verworfen' habe, weil die Streifen nicht so offensichtlich sind.

Like above I adhered the tape onto some cardstock, embossed it with a distressed stripes embossing folder and added some inka gold turquoise. Then I die cut it with the T.H. butterfly die. The background is made with ecoline ink and a grass stamp (also T.H.).
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Genau wie oben habe ich das tape aufgeklebt, mit einem 'distressed stripes' Embossing folder durch die Big Shot neudelt und mit inka gold türkis akzentuiert, anschließend die Schmetterlinge ausgestanzt. Der Hintergrund ist mit Ecoline Tinte gemacht und einem Grasstempel.


Thanks a bunch for stopping by.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

let's call it a dimensional ATC :-D

I did this for HDH #175 - Halloween in your Face! where we are to create an art piece (dark, gothic ...) with a Halloween theme.

The skull girl is sitting on the back of a bird which sadly isn't recognizable any more through the iron fence. If you look closely enough you can see the beak in the left corner :-)

Thanks for stopping by and having a look.
Have a nice week ....

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

quick ATC

that I'm entering into the smudgy antics challenge :-)

Thanks for having a peek.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

red/black/white

for the challenge over at Fun with ATCs.
My son insisted in giving it a go

Thanks so much for looking!!

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

black, white, red ...

A big hello to all of you, visitors and passers by, and of course a warm welcome to my faithful followers.
It's our 95th challenge over at the Fun with ATCs blog and this time we ask you to use just black, white, and red.

But this time we have something special: two wonderful and imaginative ladies are joining us and will reinforce our ranks. We are very glad to have them in our team. Please pop by and welcome them :-)
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Ein herzliches Hallo an alle, Besucher, Flaneure (*g* schönes Wort) und natürlich an meine treuen Verfolger.
Dies ist unsere 95. Herausforderung bei FwATCs und wir möchten von Euch ATCs sehen, die in schwarz, weiß und rot gehalten sind.
Aber nicht nur das, wir stellen Euch zwei wunderbare talentierte neue Team- Mitglieder vor, die uns in Zukunft verstärken werden. 

It's just a plain white piece of cardstock with stamps by darkroomdoor, stamp franciso and ... oh, I have to look where the queen is from, will add that later ... the edges were embossed with black ep.
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Ein Stück weiße Pappe mit Stempeln von Darkroomdoor, Stamp Francisco - und woher die Königin ist, muss ich gleich noch schauen. Die Kanten sind einen Hauch schwarz embosst.

For inspiration - in case you feel you could do with some :-D - please hop over to the Fun with ATCs blog to have a look at the fab ATCs my teamies made.

Have fun creating your ATCs :-D